UKRAINIAN LEAGUE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM (UKRLAA)
OPEN LETTER TO JEWISH FEDERATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS
I ask you to raise some very important and painful questions regarding the rehabilitation of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine and regarding the fact that several people historically implied in the killing of Jews are now been considered as heroes . .
This is an extremely actual topic for Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia, Romania and considering the development of the five years it is an extremely hot subject in Ukraine. Indeed,
from 2005 to 2009 Ukraine was governed by the Yushenko-Timoschenko
coalition regime that was completely anti-Semitic. It has to be mentioned that the whole word has been tricked by this regime who managed to get support from the European Union and The USA (Regrettably, some Jews also were duped by this regime). .
During these five years , there number of anti-Semitic incidents, were multiple pogroms and vandalization targeting Jewish cemeteries, sites of Holocaust mass murders, Jewish schools, Jewish Institutes, Jewish synagogues (criminal fires, swastikas painted up, violent physical aggressions against rabbis, etc...), attacks on Jewish public figures in the local mass media, and neo-Nazi marches. .
Thanks to GOD, due to sincere attempts to bring the truth and to bring real information about this regime, we succeed in breaking it and Viktor Yanukovych became the new president.
Now, we need to address the U.S President, the U.S senators, the members of the U.S Congress, The president of France, the Prime minister of Great-Britain in order to support the new president of Ukraine – Viktor Yanukovitch.
Recent
events in four different Eastern European countries have once again highlighted
the ongoing assault on the accepted Holocaust narrative in the post-communist
world. Three attached considerable attention, while the fourth, which perhaps
affords us the best insight into the phenomenon of Eastern European attempts to
rewrite World War II history, was virtually ignored, until it aroused a
solitary Jewish protest.
As an immediate result we should call for the restitution, in the whole Ukraine, of the Jewish temples in the same way that Christian temples have been
given back after 1990 to the Christians. In the building of the past
built synogogue (Templ) where have been sang the biggest kanthor Yosef
Shmidt - in his movietheater where has been showed the hollywoodic
movies. This synagogue whose the Nazis german wanted to destroy at the
beginning and after then the Soviet army (the "Red army"). In other
synagogue there is a sportcomplex(!!!) and there is one synagogue where
is a holly fabriane where is maken a windows and doors. In one big
building of a synagogue there has been selledto the athventistim. In
town Vyzhnitsa, in Chernivtsi region, was synagogue of hasidies is
cituated now a Building of Culture.
May I inform you that in the Western Ukraine and Kiev, some streets and monuments are been renamed from the name of historical criminals implied in the mass-murdering of Jews: Petlyura , Bandera , Shukhevitch and others . Regional center, name of region, names of streets , towns in Ukraine, square in center of Kiev, monument in this square - cossack getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky : can we imagine that one street in Germany could be named after Adolf Hitler ?
May I recall you that Uman was the place in 1768 of a massacre of more than 30,000 Jewish (and polish) people ordered by the cossack getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the place of several other massacres of Jews.
Another example: every year tens of thousand of Jews from the world come to Uman to attend the tomb of Rabi Nahman to celebrate Rosh-ha-shana. And every year there are multiple problems:
· A huge hotel belonging to the Jews (Hasidim Hotel) has been illegally taken by member of the parliament deputy Petr Kuzmenko.
· In some other places of the city, new houses for rich people are being built on Jewish cemeteries: on the bone of Jews!
· Pilgrims are welcomed by police forces with dogs!
· The Ultra-nationalist Party «Svoboda» is making anti-Semitic demonstration before the event of Rosh-ha-shana.
· On 27/09/10, 30,000 Jewish people from the whole world attended for Jewish holydays Rosh ha-shana near the tomb of Rabi Nahman from Bratslov. One 21-year old Jewish, Shmuel Tubul was murdered by Ukrainians anti-Semitic criminals. He was to get married in 2 months in Israel.
In the city of Lviv , after the local elections, the ultra-nationalistic party "Svoboda" won the Governmental position in Galicia (Western Ukraine - former territory of Poland) and its Anti-Semitic leader, Oleg Tyagnibok is now ruling the area.
UEFA must remove the city of LVIV from the city organising soccer matches during EURO 2012 even.
As
a result it is now necessary to call all the global Jewish community to
press UEFA to cacel the of Lvov as the place for holding the UEFA
championship EURO 2012 (Boycott).
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The
event of the congress of UEFA in Venice ( 8-9 / 12 /2011 ) should be
also the occasion to officially protest against the antisemitism in Lviv
.We call young Jewish people to rally Venice at this date and to
protest.
May I also recall that in the regions of Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk (Stanislaw), more than 200,000 Jews have been killed in each region by the Ukrainian fascists in 1941 during the Second World War. And now in western Ukraine they are proclaiming heroes out of Jews-killers!
When
Viktor Yanoukovitch became the new president of Ukraine the amount of
antisemititic acts decreased. The proclamation by Viktor Yuschenko that
Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian Hero have been definitively invalidated
by the Donetsk Appeal Court . The same fate occured for all the other
Ukrainians 'Nazi Hero' such as Roman Shukhevitch and all the leaders of
the criminals organisations ( OUN,UPA, SS Galicia) that murdered
Ukrainian Jews during second world war .
In 2011 , in Uman , during Rosh-Ah-Shana , the Ukrainian police arrested
and expelled 6 Jews. The locals are doing many provocations in order to
conflict with the Jewish people. In 2011 the Fascist party 'Svoboda'
organized a huge provocation by calling its troop to stand in Uman for
the event 'Uman without the Hassidims' ( sic) . On this occasion , many
youg Ukrainians went to Uman , answering to the call of 'Svoboda' , in
order to fight with the Jewish pilgrims. These youg men were arrested
and detained by the Ukrainian police who seized many knifes , anti-riot
gas , light grenades from this people. one year ago , a Jewish pilgrim ,
Shmuel Tubul was murdered by Ukrainian criminals . 10 days ago , a
meeting had been oganised by Svoboda and the goal was to 'expell' the
Jews from the Ukrainian ground...Svoboda wrote on tracts that Jews were
bringing diseases to Ukraine like the rats or the dogs ...
The
previous regime , leaders of the Orange revolution lead by Timochenko
and Yushenko have duped the whole world by pretending they were bringing
democracy to Ukraine . The USA and Europe should stop to support these
'Orange' leaders and should stop to fund them .These leaders are now
pretending to fight againt Viktor Yanukovitch , described as a 'facist'
while in reality , they are the facists ! Voice of America TV and Radio
Freedom should also stop to broadcast interviews of these leaders who
have heavily supported 'Svoboda' in the past .
Giving
money to the 'Orange revolution' Leaders results in funding Oleg
Tyanibok , the facist party 'Svoboda' who have named streets after war
criminals such as Roman Shukevitch or Stefan Bandera. The USAID and
other fondations must stop funding 'orange' NGO non-profit antisemitic
organisations.
14
october 2011, In Kiev , an estimated amount of 30,000 supporters of
'Svoboda' did rally the city to show their support to the criminal
organizations of OUN and UPA and to their Hero , Stefan Bandera. They
beared many panels with the picture or War Nazi Criminals .
On
August 2011 , in Lviv , the old synaguogue 'Golden Rose' had been
half-destroyed by Lviv authorities who wanted to build an hotel for the
Euro 2012 .After an international reaction from many Jews , the
struction had ben stopped . Destroying the synagogue was totally illegal
since it is a part of the UNESCO international patrimony . In Kiev ,
the officials wanted to build an hotel on the very important place of
memory of 'Babi-Yar' ( an estimated amount of 33000 jews were murdered
there during the second world war ) . The Timochenko-Yuschenko regime
also refused all the time to authorize the building of a memorial at the
'Babi-Yar' place . On the opposite , Viktor Yanukovitch authorized the
building of this memorial , 70 years after the massacre of 'Babi-Yar'.
There
are many places like Babi-Yar' in the whole of Ukraine . We should
build a big memorial for remembering the Holocaust dedicated to all the
places in Ukraine where Jews were murdered , not only for 'Babi-Yar',
like the big memorial in Paris and Washington for the Holocaust.
1,5
millions of Ukrainians jews have been murdered by the Nazis and the
collaborationaists. During the regime of Timochenko and Yuschenko , no
officials have even been seen attending the commerations of 'Babi-Yar'.
The municipality of Lvov want to name the new stadium of Lvov , build for the Euro 2012 soccer cup , the 'Stepan Bandera' Stadium.
The antisemitic novel from the writer Vassili
Chklyar , 'The Black Crow' has won the Chevchenko State price. The
former president Yuschenko wants to raise money from Ukrainian people to
produce the film in Hollywood.
The
leaders of the 'Orange revolution' want revenge , they have fool
Ukraine , Europe and the whole world. They are now proclaiming that
Viktor Yanukovych is a dictator and is doing political repression. It's
entirely false.What they want , in reality, is Ukraine to restart its
antisemitic politics.
In the City of Chernovtsy (Cernovitz) , the municipality service destroyed, from 2009 to 2010 a number of Jewish tombs while they were cutting and burning old trees and they did not pay attention to the damages. .
There was, of course, a ban to cutting trees in the Jewish cemetery because this place is considered as a culture -historical sanctuary and must be therefore protected .but the municipality did not care about this ban.
A Jewish
man in critical condition after he was reportedly assaulted by neo-Nazi gang in
the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Aharon
Alexander Gorshonov, a 25-year old yeshiva student, at a hospital in Kiev. He was
last seen leaving the synagogue with a white Kippa on his head on the second
night of Seder near Kiev’s central synagogue Brodsky’s. When we found him at
the hospital, his face was bloodied and his skull was shattered. Gorshonov went
missing in the same area Kiev where skinheads (Ukrainian neo-Nazi) brutally
attacked another member of the local Jewish community (yeshiva student) seven
years ago – after long times in hospital. Complained that he had regularly been
subjected to anti-Semitic taunts and abuse since he moved to Ukraine over a
decade ago.
In march
2012 a Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv (Lvov). According
to Jewish leaders, Oleksandr Nazar, of the city’s Sholem Aleichem Jewish
Culture Center, said Friday that activists had cleaned off most of the paint
used to deface the memorial.
Ukraine attack
victim being treated in Israel.
The victim
of an alleged anti-Semitic attack that took place in Ukraine was flown to Israel
to receive treatment for his wounds.
All of
above cases can best be described as “Holocaust distortion” (as opposed to
denial), which seeks to promote the canard of historical equivalency between
Nazi and communist crimes, thereby denying the Holocaust its rightful place as
a unique case of genocide. Such distortion also minimizes the highly significant
role of Hitler’s Eastern European collaborators in Holocaust crimes and paves
the way for the rehabilitation of those who fought against the Soviets,
regardless of any crimes they may have committed against Jews. It is this
ideological foundation that spawned all four described above.
This approach
was originally formulated in the Prague Declaration of June 3, 2008, which can properly
be categorized as the official “manifesto of Holocaust distortion”. The declaration’s
original signatories – 27 leading Eastern European political leaders and
intellectuals – openly warn that Europe will never be united until it “recognize(s)
communism and Nazism as a common legacy,” and makes practical demands that if
accepted would lead to a revolutionary reevaluation of World War II history,
and turn the Holocaust into just another of many similar tragedies. Unfortunately,
resolutions supporting these principles have already passed by a wide margin in
the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
It is time
for the Israeli government and Jewish defense organizations to begin actively
combating these dangerous phenomena, lest the successes achieved during recent
decades in Holocaust commemoration and education worldwide be erased by those
trying to conceal the crimes of their countrymen.
As a conclusion, we should empower and enforce the existing TAGLIT and MASA programs and we should increase the number of Jewish trips for young people to the place of murdering of Jews in Ukraine (and other places of Jewish Holocaust).
We need to call out for creating economical and financial sanctions, the EBRD, World Bank, USAID must stop funding-support the regions of Western Ukraine who are rehabilitating and making heroes with Jews killers.
Sincerely yours,
The President of the Ukrainian League against Anti-Semitism,
Baruch Fichman
Email: baruch2000@gmail.com
website: http://uklaa.blogspot.com
UA-58000 Chernivtsi, UKRAINE
2010 -2012
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| Rabbi Nahman 's Tomb in Uman |
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| Meeting
of the Neo-Nazi Party "SVOBODA" and its leader Oleg Tyagnibok in front
of the statue of Stephan Bandera , a nazi collaborationist and war
criminal implied in salughtering of jews during World War Two |
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Neo-Nazi manifestation in Lvov in SS uniforms ( Western Ukraine ) where 200,000 Jewish people
were murdered during World War Two ! |
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| Stephan Bandera with SS officers during the second world war |
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| Portrait
of Stephan Bandera , considered as a messianic leader in modern
Western Ukraine in the current process of "heroization" of WWII war
criminals |
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Роман Шухевич ( Roman Choukhevitch ) , the Ukrainian war
criminal
, in its Wafen SS commander uniform , many streets in Ukraine (
including in Chernivtsi ) bear his name currently after the actions of
the former prime minister Timochenko and the regime
Ioushenko-Timoschenko !
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Svatiskas painted up in the Sevastopol Memorial
A 'Roman Choukevitch' Street in Chernivtsi
The 'Kurin' memorial to the glory of people who murdered Jewishs in Chernovtsy
The Memorial to Bander in Lvov
Memorial to Stefan Bandera in Ternopil !
Monument to Stefan Bandera in Ivano-Frankovsk
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Supporters of Karpaty Lviv hold a Nazi flag with a swastika as they attend
a soccer match against Dynamo Kiev on August 19, 2007
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